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Issue #22 (26 Sep) – A lot of bookmarks potential, a great week for German scene and an amazing fact in the footer.
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👀 Handpicked 30 from Berlin
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🗞 Top inspiration snippets
🎉 This week was especially good for German startup scene, small seeds to grow into something.
🇩🇪 Berlin & Germany
Gigs, Berlin-based phone-sub-as-a-service company, raised €20M. Careers wanted me to log into Notion, maybe check that again, Gigs webmaster?
Hakuna, Berlin-based embedded insurance provider, raised €4M seed. Careers.
Kaiko Systems, Berlin-based commercial vessels digitizer, raised €2M seed. Careers.
Mietz, Berlin-based Tinder for apartments, raised €1M pre-seed. No careers yet.
DataGuard, Munich-based data privacy and info sec platform, raised €61M Series B. Careers.
MicroHarvest, Hamburg-based biotech doing things with proteins, raised €8.5M. Careers.
syte, Münster/Berlin-based real-estate mapping/research startup, raised €2.6M. Careers.
Cello, Munich-based word-of-mouth for SaaS service, raised €2.3M. Careers.
We’ve got a new €300M net-zero fund Extantia from Berlin, check them out if your idea is to save the world this way or another.
layoffs.fyi reports: not clear if it affects Berlin location, but Klarna is laying off additional 100 people; Moss laid off 70 employees on Friday (15%)
r/berlin choice of the week: the best German restaurants in Berlin. I have not yet tried any, but in case you are ever in Garmisch (yeah, I know, random!), I had one of the best schnitzels ever at Gaststätte Flößerstube.
Berliner Zeitung has a great interview (🇩🇪) with the founder of Conny, Daniel Halmer. Conny is helping renters sue landlords and gets paid by 6xlowered amount. In the same newspaper you find some tips for autumn in Berlin; Gärten der Welt in Marzahn looks especially interesting.
Landesdenkmalamt Berlin has this interesting YT channel with videos about some most important architectural monuments in the city. I assume more is coming.
🇪🇺 Rest of Europe & UK (Top 5)
Prophese, Paris-based robot event-based vision startup, raised €50M Series C. Impressive! Careers.
Zenchef, Paris-based platform for restaurants, raised over €50M. Careers.
Ledgy, Zurich-based cap table management startup, raised $22M. Careers.
Immortal Game, Paris-based chess (what a name!) experience startup, raised €15.5M. Careers.
Prewave, Vienna-based supplier risk identification platform, raised €11M. Careers.
🤓 Timeless and useful
It often makes more sense to Google something with “site:reddit.com” added because you avoid all the SEO optimised crap on the way to your search results. For products, check out Looria. Inevitable US focus, but still a good concept.
😅 Meanwhile
r/ich_iel returns, so many good ones, but Wer
This is a footer 📚 fact. Mind-blowing, but “out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books.” This means that this single issue of Hanpicked had more readers than last 29k+ books published by Penguin. Phew. Source. Hit that ♡ button, let’s see if I can get one dozen likes.
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